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Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that, in one form or another, has motivated a great many people, from the members of teenage street gangs to the statesmen of major nations.
The rising spiral of world military spending provides a striking example of how highly national governments value armed forces. In 2024, the
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Back in 2016, I was convinced that, had Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential nomination, he would have beaten Donald Trump because he would have taken some of Trump’s White working-class voters.
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In the age of Donald Trump, as TomDispatch regulars Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler suggest today, among the endlessly unfolding tariffs (including ones likely to
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In the age of Donald Trump, like every era before his in my lifetime, the military-industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower first warned us about in his 1961 farewell address
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Best guess: If you don’t happen to love golf or imagine the world as a golf course, you’re on the wrong planet these days. And that’s true in so many different ways. Okay, it’s also true that, unlike
On “Speaking Truth to Empire” at KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and professor of history. He has written extensively for TomDispatch.com, Antiwar.com, Truthout, History News Network, AlterNet, Salon, and Huffington Post among other sites. He is the author or co-author of three books, his latest book is, American Militarism on Steroids: The Military-Industrial Complex,
The Trump clowns are planning to close U.S. embassies in Africa.
Good riddance, right?
Wrong.
They still plan to work on “coordinated counterterrorism operations” and “strategic extraction and trade of critical natural resources.”
They also still plan to maintain U.S. military bases across the continent. They’re shutting down all kinds of offices, but not Africom.
In U.S. culture and media, where it’s one’s duty to pretend that the military budget and everything that goes with it does
The Alien and Sedition Acts were laws created in 1798 to carve out exceptions to the 1791 Bill of Rights, by banning statements against the government, making it harder to become a citizen, allowing the imprisonment and deportation of non-citizens, and — the bit that is still on the books (albeit, I think, pretty clearly unconstitutionally) — allowing the imprisonment of non-citizens during wars or “invasions” or “predatory incursions.” Be prepared for the rest of it to be brought